They were first produced with an image of Lady Liberty on the front and ... them worth thousands of times more than one cent though, Dave Sorrick, coin expert and collector at In God We Trust ...

“One of the earliest, if not the earliest, coins issued by the U.S., the 1787 Fugio Cent is steeped in history,” Byers said. “Although records are sparse, this copper coin is widely regarded ...

one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first cent was of a woman with flowing hair, who stood for liberty. The coin was larger and made of pure copper, while today ...

When President Donald Trump announced his intention to eliminate the penny Sunday, he cited the rising cost of producing the coin. Data from the U.S. Treasury shows it’s not the only coin that costs ...

At that point it cost about 1.4 cents to make one penny. The U.S. Mint now says the cost is 3.69 cents per coin and that it had a net loss of $85.3 million after spending about $117 million to ...

He knows that our neighbors to the north ditched one-cent coins more than a decade ago with little fuss. And yet, Papertsian, the owner of Bay State Coin Co. in downtown Boston, cannot get behind ...